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RE: [OM] Metering with variable f-stop zoom?

Subject: RE: [OM] Metering with variable f-stop zoom?
From: "cstrat@xxxxxxxxxxx" <cstrat@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:07:28 -0500
>   My question is this: On the OM-3, with the lens wide-open, is the
> meter reading that change in light transmission and showing that on the
> display (so I don't have to compensate mentally)? It's reading off the
> sub-mirror live as I zoom, right?

Yes it is, but that is only a factor with the aperture wide open on this lens.
At f-stops of 5.6 and above, the mechanics of this zoom (Zuiko 35-105) maintain
a constant aperture as you zoom in and out.

Chip Stratton
cstrat@xxxxxxxxx


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